Auto Restore of Open windows

After I quit safari, the next time I open Safari it opens all the windows and sites that were present in the last session.
Does anyone know how I can disable this?

Some things you can do:
* Close all windows before quitting Safari.
or
* Press option-command-q to quit Safari
or
* Hold shift down when launching Safari from the dock.
or
* Uncheck the box in System Preferences, General, which says "Restore windows..."
charlie

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FFresFF crashing and restore session has been crashing without warning or notice for the past two weeks every other day, losing my restore session open windows

several times in the past 2 weeks, i come back to my computer to find FF has closed. there are no alerts or notices of a crash. when i use restore session, only 3 windows are listed as "recently closed", when I have 20 or so open. i believe there have been 2 updates in that period. i have to manually go through 'all history" to find my missing windows!

every time I have a problem with FF recently, someone suggests this. I try it and learn nothing.

IMPORTANT OPENED WINDOWS I WAS WORKING ON (EMPLOYMENT INFO, I AM UNEMPLOYED!) AND NOW THEY ARE GONE AND I CANNOT GET THEM BACK!! YOU NEED TO HELP ME RESTORE TH

My Firefox crashed with important information on it!!!
My Firefox has been crashing every day sometimes several times a day. I have emailed your staff back many times looking for a reason for the crashed without any response. I have been able to get by because I would restore the settings and continue what I was doing. WELL….this last crash has disappeared from any way of getting it back and IT HAD SOME REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT OPENED WINDOWS I WAS WORKING ON (EMPLOYMENT INFO, I AM UNEMPLOYED!) AND NOW THEY ARE GONE AND I CANNOT GET THEM BACK!! YOU NEED TO HELP ME RESTORE THAT OPEN WINDOWS FOR ME. IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT!! I NEED SOME DESPERATE HELP NOW!!
Thanks,
Nick

Nick, sorry to hear about that. I'm not sure where you are sending the emails, but if you use the form to submit your crash information, that goes into a database for review by the developers instead of coming to the support volunteers here.
Did you try the History > Restore Previous Session command? Firefox sometimes saves form data in the session history. This data may age out, so you should use that menu item as soon as possible.
Going forward, consider installing the [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lazarus-form-recovery/ Lazarus: Form Recovery] extension if you are filling long forms and Firefox is unstable.
With respect to the crashes, there are many possible reasons for Firefox to crash. Have you reviewed the help articles for diagnosis? For example: [[Firefox crashes - Troubleshoot, prevent and get help fixing crashes]].

RESTORE 'NUMBER OF ITEMS' AND 'SPACE AVAILABLE' IN OPEN WINDOW

something we seem to have lost in LION is the useful number of items and memory avail or used
at the bottom of windows/drive windows. any way to restore?

Open the Finder menu and set the options:
Finder -> View -> Show Status Bar
and
Finder -> View -> Show Path Bar
and you will see this information again
HTH
Léonie

Tabs and window restore only restored one of many open windows from last session. I hate this!!

Tab and window restoration has FAILED after version 13.01 installation! Out of 7 windows open with multiple tabs, only ONE BROWSER WINDOW OPENED with NO reference to what happened to the normal session that had been in the previous version of FF. I've read about this and I DON'T LIKE IT. It is reverse engineering. WHY would you scrap someone's research for the sake of making your browser open more quickly? DAMMIT MAN I don't have time to study a browser. I may not endure this version! I don't see a way out of this ff trap, other than go to previous version which is always a bitch. Dammit!

You need to use "Firefox/File > Exit" (Mac: "Firefox > Quit"; Linux: "File > Quit") to close Firefox if you are currently doing that by clicking the close X on the title bar to close Firefox with all open windows at once. Otherwise only the last closed window will be restored. If this did happen then check History > Recently Closed Windows to see if any are listed (default is 3).

I ran a System Restore on my Windows XP notebook and now iTunes won't open. It says something about my "iTunes library being created in a new version of iTunes".

I ran a System Restore in my Windows XP notebook and now iTunes will not open. The message: The file "iTunes Library.itl" cannot be read because it was created by a newer version of iTunes. What can I do about this?

Depending on the iTunes settings and where the music is downloaded from, by default, it is stored in C:\...\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\. So, if you need to backup, that would be the folder you want to grab.
However, uninstalling/reinstalling iTunes doesn't affect that folder, so if you have to remove and reinstall it you should not lose any music (although backups are always a good idea).
In reinstalling, I'd recommend opening your Control Panel and going into Add or Remove Programs, and removing the following:
1. Apple Mobile Device Support
2. Apple Software Update
3. Bonjour
4. iPod for Windows (if it exists)
5. iTunes
6. QuickTime
Then, restart the computer, and download/install iTunes from http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/. This should ensure that the appropriate version of all related software is installed, and everything is in sync.
CG

Is it possible to restore lost windows? Firefox crashed, and only 5 of my open windows reopened, even though all settings are such that all should be restored.

Unfortunately when I restarted Firefox after its most recent crash, most of my open windows and tabs were not restored as they are set to do and as they usually do after a crash. Not that I enjoy Firefox crashing, but usually everything reopens and life goes on. However, after a crash tonight, when I next opened Firefox about 80% of my open windows and tabs did not reopen.
After this (most recent) crash most of my windows and tabs were not restored:
bp-e7f145b9-04cf-4de8-a4a4-8e2952130816
This was the most recent prior crash where my windows and tabs were restored:
bp-c674bdd3-e905-44c0-9bc9-6b4982130815
**I would love to have these windows and tabs reset, or at least be able to find a list of them to reopen them manually.**
I am running Firefox 23.0. My antivirus and antispyware were run overnight last night with no issues.
(This is on my desktop computer using Windows XP. I also have a laptop which runs Firefox 23.0 which uses Windows 7. Firefox on it crashes as well, but thankfully thus far the windows and tabs have been restored. I use it less than I do my desktop, however.)
Thank you very much!

Thank you -- I will do so. Still, I'm very eager to restore (or find a list of) my windows and tabs that were not restored after the last crash. Is it possible to do that from the last working restore?
The last two working restores were after the crash mentioned above, bp-c674bdd3-e905-44c0-9bc9-6b4982130815, and before that, bp-7f5b697e-c4c5-4cb8-9b15-9318c2130815.
FWIW, I just updated to 23.0.1. Thank you *very* much!

Ipod will not turn on, itunes will not open, window says ipod is in recovery mode and needsto be restored

ipod will not turn on, itunes will not open, window pops up says ipod is in recovery mode and needs to be restored. what do i do now?

You restore the iPod via iTunes. Don't plug the iPod in. Open up iTunes and then plug it in and then try restoring, if it fails to restore a few times, keep trying. I do it on a daily basis, you're using an Apple product, remember...
EDIT: Do it from another computer if all else fails.

Restoring all running programs and opened windows after restart.

Is it possible to automatically restore upon logging in all applications, opened windows and documents running before a reboot of Leopard? It's rather convenient, especially when I have to reboot after an update of the system while working on a dozen of windows. Currently I have to relaunch them all one by one. It is a default feature of KDE, BTW.

even tho it's so there
This is a bit too close to a message I'm familiar with that can indicate a hijack on the PC. So just in case I think we'd better try a malware scan.
Try downloading and installing the free version of Malwarebytes AntiMalware. Update your MBAM definitions and then run a full scan of the PC. (Takes about 2 hours on my Lenovo.)
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
Does the scan find any infections? If so, please paste the contents of the log file for the scan in a reply here so we can have a look.

How to 'restore open windows on restart' in Snow Leopard

My 10.6.8 2.66 Intel Core 2 Duo laptop is getting really bogged down and slow. Ocassionally I like to restart it but I lose all my open windows. Can't seem to find a "reopen windows when logging back in" function. Anyone know how to do this?

If you always open the same files then place aliases in a folder - let's call it 'Start' and place it in the Documents folder as an example.
Then paste this into the AppleScript editor, obviously entering your short name in the approriate place in the path:
tell application "Finder"
open every item of folder "Start" of folder "Documents" of folder "(user)" of folder "Users" of startup disk
end tell
(There are only three lines in this, don't put a line return in the second one even though the forum will show it as such.)
Save this somewhere convenient. Open System Preferences>Accounts and click the 'Login items' tab. Click the '+' button and navigate to the script.
However, if as seems more likely, you want to open a different selection of files each time, dependent on what you were last working on, then I'm afraid this facility is not available in Snow Leopard. You would have to upgrade your System to Lion minimum. (Note that this would disable any PPC programs you have.)

OS X (Yosemite v10.10 and X Mavericks 10.9.5) switching between/selecting open windows after scansnap v6.3 L23 upgrade

Mid-2013 13" MBA w/1.7 GHz Intel Core i7 running Yosemite. ScanSnap auto update ran this evening (02 Nov 14) and upgraded my ScanSnap manager to version 6.3 L23. Immediately after the update the OS started making different open windows (Safari, Finder, Mail, etc.) active for 1/10th of a second each. I could select a window but the OS kept making other windows active. I had enough time to click on one item or type one letter before the OS would make another window active. It was so bad that I couldn't even open safari and conduct a search. I finally used Time Machine to go back ~1/2 an hour and that seemed to find my problem.
Not long after I stopped pulling my hair out, my wife started complaining about the same thing. Mid-2014 MBP Retina running Mavericks 10.9.5 (I hadn't updated her OS yet). ScanSnap updater ran and updated her ScanSnap manager to v6.3 L23 and she had the same problem. However, she had unplugged her USB Time Machine backup drive so I couldn't restore her computer to a previous time. I have tried resetting PRAM (three times), uninstalling the ScanSnap software via safe mode, checking for errant processes via Utility Monitor (none identified) and am now in the process of updating the MBP to Yosemite.
The best way I can describe the problem is the OS just keeps activating/selecting different windows. When no windows are open and no programs are running everything seems fine, then when I open only one item (a finder window, for example) the OS starts select it, then not, then selecting it, then not, etc. If I open more than one window/app it seems to rotate through them. Problem is that no matter what I do the window I select does not stay selected.

Mid-2013 13" MBA w/1.7 GHz Intel Core i7 running Yosemite. ScanSnap auto update ran this evening (02 Nov 14) and upgraded my ScanSnap manager to version 6.3 L23. Immediately after the update the OS started making different open windows (Safari, Finder, Mail, etc.) active for 1/10th of a second each. I could select a window but the OS kept making other windows active. I had enough time to click on one item or type one letter before the OS would make another window active. It was so bad that I couldn't even open safari and conduct a search. I finally used Time Machine to go back ~1/2 an hour and that seemed to find my problem.
Not long after I stopped pulling my hair out, my wife started complaining about the same thing. Mid-2014 MBP Retina running Mavericks 10.9.5 (I hadn't updated her OS yet). ScanSnap updater ran and updated her ScanSnap manager to v6.3 L23 and she had the same problem. However, she had unplugged her USB Time Machine backup drive so I couldn't restore her computer to a previous time. I have tried resetting PRAM (three times), uninstalling the ScanSnap software via safe mode, checking for errant processes via Utility Monitor (none identified) and am now in the process of updating the MBP to Yosemite.
The best way I can describe the problem is the OS just keeps activating/selecting different windows. When no windows are open and no programs are running everything seems fine, then when I open only one item (a finder window, for example) the OS starts select it, then not, then selecting it, then not, etc. If I open more than one window/app it seems to rotate through them. Problem is that no matter what I do the window I select does not stay selected.

How to disable auto-restore in Pages (Lion)

I'm sure this has been asked before but the search function can't find the answer.
It's the dreaded auto-restore when Pages is started -- "hey, here's the last document you were working on!!" Grrr! If I wanted it, I'd open it once I invoked the application.
How do you prevent this from happening? I have been to System Preferences:General and removed the check from "Restore windows when quitting" This has no impact on Pages.
I tried looking under $HOME/Library/Saved Application State to see if there was a file there I could tweak to turn off autorestore for Pages but there wasn't.
Thanks for any insight on how to get rid of this stupid "feature."

Select "Close Windows when Quitting and Application" in System Prefrences, General, third panel.
Jerry

Disabling auto-restore for .doc files in Pages

Perhaps the most infuriating feature of Lion is the auto-restore feature that assumes you want to open previous documents every time you use the app (a bewildering assumption). So fine, I go into the system preferences and uncheck "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps". The problem is, this setting does not seem to affect the restoration of Word documents (.doc or .docx); these documents restore as if the setting was checked, and moreover, they are in an unsaved ("Untitled") state, so I not only have to manually close the document, but I have to tell it not to save it as well.
This is clearly a bug, but is there a workaround?

My inactive Pages is using 85MB right now, but I have 1.5GB free. If I needed that memory and Pages were still inactive, the system would write it out to virtual memory. If your wife's system is slow it's a problem with active processes or badly coded ones. (Or, as Peter pointed out, too little RAM to begin with.)
Maybe the problem with your "Untitled" document is just that: you never saved it and you never closed it. The system can't know you don't mind losing it and since you never gave it a file, the system can't just leave it unopened when you restart Pages because it doesn't exist anywhere that would allow you to get it back if you did want it.

Opening windows behind the dock

I like to have my dock shown all the time, so I leave hiding turned off. Something I've noticed with Snow Leopard 10.6.x is that Windows can no longer re-open in their same location if they are left closed behind the dock boundaries (the reserved screen edge).
In Leopard 10.5.x opening a window, for example Adium, tucked neatly in the bottom-right corner's screen edges (with the dock displayed), allows it to be opened in the exact same location.
In Snow Leopard 10.6.x re-opening this window forces it to open outside of the dock's reserved screen edge boundaries. So for instance, if I have my dock displayed on the bottom edge, re-opening this window will force it to open above the bottom edge. The larger my dock-icon size is, the further away from the bottom-edge my windows open.
Electing to have your dock auto-hide fixes this issue, but as my preference, I want my dock on-screen all the time. I wish this functionality could be restored from Leopard 10.5.x, or has it been? Does anyone know of a way to re-open windows in their same position if they where closed behind dock boundaries?

Thank you for your swift reply K T!
K T wrote:
Somethings you might try : (1) shrinking the dock so it doesn't extend full width (2) positioning your dock to the left or right edge instead of along the bottom of the screen.
Positioning the dock on the right-edge of the screen reserves the right edge. Window's can not re-open in the same position if they were closed on the right-edge. Same thing applies for the left edge, and obviously the bottom edge.
I suppose if I use the bottom-right edge of the screen for my Adium IM chat windows, I could put the dock on the left-edge. But this is really nothing more than a quick work-around. I wish there was an actual resolution to the issue, like a terminal command which displayed the dock and vacated that reserved edge.
K T wrote:
As well, this page might be in your future:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Heading over there now!

Open windows wont close

Somehow I got myself into what should be an easily resolved problem, but I havn't been able to figure it out.
I have the main Elements window open on a second monitor. It is so far open that the handle bar at the top of the screen
that allows you to move the window around the screen is hidden behind the menu bar on my mac. The bottom of the open window is also below the
bottom of the same computer screen. The result is that I cannot close the active Elements window or move it to my primary window where I may be
able to grab the top and reduce the size. I can bring in the sides but that doesn't help close the window.
I know I'm probably only one button away, but Which button?
Thanks
Rich

Well, worst case you can always just Restore Workspace (under the Window menu).
Your other option is to temporarily increase the resolution of your monitor so that the top of this window is displayed.
Or you can temporarily decrease the resolution of your monitor so that all of the windows get smaller and rejigger into position, then reset your monitor to your regular resolution.

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